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Eye of God

Director/Writer: Tim Blake NelsonDirector of Photography:Russell Lee FineEditor:Kate SanfordProduction Designer:Patrick GearyProducers:Wendy Ettinger and Michael NelsonCastle Hill Productions…

Hurston, Zora Neale

(Encyclopedia) Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891?–60, African-American writer, b. Notasulga, Ala. She grew up in the pleasant all-black town of Eatonville, Fla., and graduated from Barnard College, where she…

Brewer's: Eye

Latin, oculus; Italian, occhio; Spanish, ojo: Russian, oko; Dutch, oog; Saxon, eáge (where g is pronounced like y); French, oeil. In my mind's eye. In my perceptive thought. The eye sees…

Music to the Eyes

Hollywood composers who changed the sound of film by James Faix and Ricco Siasoco Producers were once afraid that "background" music would appear odd to audiences and interfere with the dialogue…

white-eye

(Encyclopedia) white-eye, common name for warblerlike, arboreal birds, including 85 species in the family Zosteropidae, and for certain species of ducks. The members of Zosteropidae, with the…

cosmetics

(Encyclopedia) cosmetics, preparations externally applied to change or enhance the beauty of skin, hair, nails, lips, and eyes. The use of body paint for ornamental and religious purposes has been…

Slavic religion

(Encyclopedia) Slavic religion, pre-Christian religious practices among the Slavs of Eastern Europe. There is only fragmentary and scattered information about the myths and legends of the pagan Slavs…

God

(Encyclopedia) God, divinity of the three great monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as many other world religions. See also religion and articles on individual religions…